Feel the taste of life from the coffee

Those really interesting things, often have nothing to do with the price, but about the state of mind.

In North America, it is a good leisure and enjoyment to go to the bookstore on weekends, get tired and buy a cup of coffee in the leisure area, and sit there reading books while drinking coffee. For people who are used to living in large houses in the suburbs, even such a simple enjoyment will become very extravagant.

Most office workers are very busy on weekends, weeding and planting flowers in the garden at the beginning of spring, opening a swimming pool in summer, cleaning fallen leaves in front of doors in autumn, and clearing snow by the roadside in winter, so they don't drive to the bookstore.

Some of my good friends are such busy people. Only in the evening do they have time to sit in the study, cross-legged, make a cup of coffee and read. After all, after a busy day, a lovely cup of coffee is especially relaxing, and in order to brew a satisfactory cup of coffee, you must first choose the right coffee beans that suit your taste.

I like the Blue Mountain Coffee (Blue Mountain) in Jamaica best, which is produced in the Blue Mountain Mountains at an altitude of 2300 meters. However, blue mountain coffee is not easy to find. It is said that 90% of blue mountain coffee has been bought by the Japanese, and there are only a small number of blue mountain coffee beans in the European and American market.

Blue Mountain Coffee has a mellow taste, fresh and smooth taste, and will not feel bitter even without milk or sugar. However, even if the coffee beans are good, the way the coffee is ground and brewed must match in order to extract the best flavor from the coffee beans.

Choose the cooking method in which the coffee powder is in contact with hot water for a little longer, you need to grind the coffee particles thicker. If the coffee particles are too fine, the coffee will have a bitter, astringent "overcooked" taste. Of course, the other extreme is not good, the coffee particles are too thick, the coffee will be insipid.

Another important point is that due to the large contact area between coffee powder and air, pre-ground coffee powder is easy to oxidize and degrade. Therefore, if conditions permit, the home had better be equipped with a bean grinder to facilitate fresh cooking and grinding. There are three kinds of grinding methods for coffee beans: grinding, grinding and grinding.

I personally prefer the grinding method. I'd better buy a grinding machine with conical parts, which is less noisy and less likely to block coffee beans. The coffee particles are more uniform and the taste is more consistent when cooking. The slower the grinding speed, the less heat generated by machine friction, so the aroma of coffee is not easy to lose. A better machine can grind the ultra-fine powder needed to make Turkish coffee by adjusting the grinding parameters.

At present, most of the coffee bean grinders available on the market cut coffee beans into pieces at a high speed of 20,000 to 30,000 per minute, but the disadvantage is that the size of coffee particles is uneven, making it difficult to cook high-quality drinks. If you can't find good grinding equipment, you can buy a pestle and a mortar and slowly enjoy the fun of labor brought by "trouble-making".

At this point, some readers may ask, is it necessary to have a cup of coffee so tiring? As a matter of fact, not necessarily. Thirty years ago, when I visited my classmate's house in Shanghai, my classmate made me coffee and said proudly to me, "my cup of coffee is old and high-grade. It is made from coffee grounds bought at XXX Western Restaurant, and it is filled with milk and wheat cream. it tastes delicious!"

I still remember the expression of that classmate. To tell you the truth, in that age of extreme material scarcity, as long as I heard the word "coffee", I already felt very "petty bourgeoisie". At that time, the taste of coffee didn't matter to us at all. the important thing was that we found interest in coffee.

Those things that are really interesting often have nothing to do with the price, whether the price is high or low, but what matters most is the state of mind at that time.